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“Checkmate,” Rosaline announced with glee.

She was getting to be really good at

chess

monopoly

football

Justin put a second house on Park Place.

He and his sister often spent hours playing

monopoly

chess

baseball

He caught the pass and scored another touchdown.

There was nothing he enjoyed more than a good game of

football

baseball

monopoly

Rich couldn’t count the number of Yankees games he had seen with his father.

They both shared a lifelong interest in

baseball

football

chess

Getting both himself and his car to work on the neighboring island was time-consuming.

Every morning he drove for a few minutes and then boarded the

ferry

canoe

plane

The patient was in critical condition and the ambulance wouldn’t be fast enough.

They decided they would have to use the

helicopter

plane

ferry

Amy was very anxious about traveling abroad for the first time.

She felt surprisingly better, however, when she actually boarded the

plane

helicopter

canoe

The day before the wedding, the kitchen was just covered with frosting.

Annette’s sister was responsible for making the

cake

cookies

toast

The little girl was happy that Santa Claus left nothing but crumbs on the plate.

She decided he must have really enjoyed the

cookies

cake

pancakes

He wanted to make his wife breakfast, but he burned piece after piece.

I couldn’t believe he was ruining even the

toast

pancakes

cookies

She keeps twirling it around and around under her collar.

Stephanie seems really happy that Dan gave her that

necklace

bracelet

mascara

She wanted to make her eyelashes look really black and thick.

So she asked to borrow her older friend’s

mascara

lipstick

necklace

He complained that after she kissed him, he couldn’t get the red color off his face.

He finally just asked her to stop wearing that

lipstick

mascara

bracelet

Eleanor offered to fix her visitor some coffee.

Then she realized she didn’t have a clean

cup

bowl

spoon

My aunt fixed my brother some cereal using her best china.

Of course, the first thing he did was drop the

bowl

cup

knife

At the dinner party, I wondered why my mother wasn’t eating her soup.

Then I noticed that she didn’t have a

spoon

knife

bowl

In the dorms, cutting your steak can be a huge struggle.

They always give you such a poor quality

knife

spoon

cup

He journeyed to the African plains, hoping to get a photograph of the king of the beasts.

Unfortunately, the whole time he was there he never saw a

lion

tiger

panda

George was hiking in India when he saw the orange and black striped animal leap out at him.

He sustained serious injuries before he managed to kill the

tiger

lion

otter

Wendy wondered how they had managed to ship such a large animal all the way from China.

She waited in line to see the newly acquired

panda

otter

tiger

Barb loved the feel of the waves on her feet, but she hated to walk barefoot.

As a compromise, she usually wore a pair of

sandals

boots

shorts

By the end of the day, the hiker’s feet were extremely cold and wet.

It was the last time he would ever buy a cheap pair of

boots

sandals

jeans

Everyone agreed that the stone-washed kind were out of style.

But he continued to wear the same old pair of

jeans

shorts

sandals

As the afternoon progressed, it became hotter and hotter.

Keith finally decided to put on a pair of

shorts

jeans

boots

Pablo wanted to cut the lumber he had bought to make some shelves.

He asked his neighbor if he could borrow her

saw

hammer

rake

Tina lined up where she thought the nail should go.

When she was satisfied, she asked Bruce to hand her the

hammer

saw

shovel

The snow had piled up on the drive so high that they couldn’t get the car out.

When Albert woke up, his father handed him a

shovel

rake

saw

The yard was completely covered with a thick layer of dead leaves.

Erica decided it was time to get out the

rake

shovel

hammer

Fred went to the pantry and got out the homemade jelly his grandmother had brought.

Fifteen minutes later, however, he was still struggling to open the

jar

box

zipper

After they unpacked the new refrigerator, they let Billy have his fun.

He played for days afterwards with the big

box

jar

button

It seemed to catch every time she opened or closed her backpack.

She decided she would have to replace the

zipper

button

box

One fell off her blouse and got lost, and she didn’t have any extras.

She ended up searching all over town to find a matching

button

zipper

jar

“I’m an animal like Eeyore!” the child exclaimed.

His mother wondered why he was pretending to be a

donkey

zebra

greyhound

At the zoo, my sister asked if they painted the black and white stripes on the animal.

I explained to her that they were natural features of a

zebra

donkey

chihuahua